We recently harvested our first garden peas.
I had never had fresh peas before. Tim cooked them with finely chopped white onion, something I don’t think I would have thought of, and they were very good. Pulling them from the pods was fun, but took a long time. It’s hard for me to imagine making as much stuff from scratch as I would like to. Does it get easier and faster? And I’m watching TV while I do it! What in the world did people do before that? I want to support the Slow Food movement, but I feel like such a lazy wimp when it comes to spending time on my own food. I hope I someday feel more pleasure in my sense of responsibility.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
To do that, Slow Food brings together pleasure and responsibility, and makes them inseparable.
Today, we have over 100,000 members in 132 countries.
Joyful!? I intended for this part of the title to come off as ironic to those who know me well. I’m highly particular and resistant to change in most things. I switch my socks back and forth several times every single morning before I’m satisfied with their fit. As for the Housewife part, I’m hopeless, just hopeless when it comes to keeping house. So the tagline which follows the title is quite apt: Domestic Bliss, Eventually. I hope to live up to this manifesto as I post to this blog in the days ahead. I suffer from Chronic Disorganization Syndrome, so this should be interesting.
I shelled our peas yesterday as well. I haven’t cooked them yet because we had Chicken Tortilla Soup last night. I think we’ll have them tonight!
Thanks for sharing such great pictures. Did you replant the bed or let it rest? I was thinking soybeans.
Well, we’re moving at the end of July to Western Colorado, so we don’t have any plans to plant anything else. It’s funny, when I think of soybeans, I think of the kind they grow in Iowa, which are not for eating. We’ve never thought of growing our own. That could be cool.
Enjoy your peas!